Canadian Film Weekly (Apr 18, 1962)

Page 6 News Clips Office and lobby renovations at the Capitol, Brantford, now under way, will cost $75,000. It’s a Famous Players theatre . . . One dollar a month assessment for six months on the 3,200 members of the Affiliated Property Craftsmen, largest West Coast IA local, has been recommended by its executive board to fight runaway production . . . Members of the BC Legislative Assembly _ recently argued film censorship. David Barrett said the $20,000 being voted was a waste of money but Randolph Harding disagreed, claiming there were valid reasons for film censorship. John Tisdalle asked that censor R. W. McDonald’s salary, now $6,180, be raised . . . “‘Pay-as-you-see’’? — closed circuit television — pioneered in Canada has been reported as having no “conclusive evidence of public acceptance,” Dr. Andrew Stewart, chairman of the Board of Broadcast Governors, told the annual meeting of the Canadian Association of Broadcasters in Montreal last week. Curly Posen has closed his ~ Kent, Toronto, for dressing up. “\ AGE Film. Society, using the house on Thursdays, curtailed its season by doubling up films. Film societies did much better when they were the only theatre film shows on Sunday. It seems a good proportion of members were interested in the entertainment values in old films rather than cultural ones . . . Dawson Exley, 20th Century-Fox, is the new president of the Vancouver Film Board of Trade, with Dave Gilfillan of MGM vice-president and B. Rudston-Brown of Empire-Universal secretary . . . Aaron Fox, 65, brother of the late Wm. Fox and treasurer of the old Fox Film Corp., died in NY recently. The Macfadden-Bartell Corp. Teleglobe Pay-TV System, Inc., the owners of which have applied to the USA’s FCC for authorization to conduct a three-year test in Denver, was demonstrated last week at the Savoy-Hilton, NY. In Los Angeles Oliver Unger, president of Closed Circuit Entertainment Co. Inc., completed arrangements to bring a boxing show from the local sports arena into homes on April 23 . . . Industrial Film Maintenance of Toronto has appointed Inland Broadcasting Service of Winnipeg its Western representative to extend its 16 and 35 mm. film services from coast to coast . . . James Pratt, executive production manager for U-I for 12 years, has rejoined the company in the same post as successor to George Golitzen, who was recently named to the position of producer, CANADIAN FILM WEEKLY is SCENE AT A LUNCH COUNTER. The waitress’ dialogue is in Italics, the customer’s in Roman—or what you’re apt to call “regular” type. Waitress: What’ll ya have? Customer: A salmon san’wich. Horseshoe or Sockeye? What's the difference? Horseshoe’s fi’ cents more. Horseshoe. Lettuce or onion? Let & tuce. On a roll, bagel or bread? Bread. White, rye or whole wheat? White. Plain or toasted? Plain. Tea, coffee or milk? Coffee. Cream and sugar? (The customer didn’t answer; he had fainted from hunger) . . Dion, whose name I never heard until he came to Toronto to star in Ten Girls Ago, aap sold hundreds of thousands of copies of his last all recording, I’m told. Such a kid yet. That reminds 7S, me of the message boy who got lost for a couple of days in the Decca Building and came out with a hit record and a seven-year contract ... Ad names that sound like double-talk: Braniff and Flouristan . . . Harry Painter, Warner Bros.’ general manager around 1930 and now 60, is operating the Atomic Drive-in at Spragge and is feeling fine. Sends his best . . . Toronto now has a Stork Club, as well as New York. It’s in the Westover Hotel and is managed by Lou Marshall, onetime manager of The Stork Club, London, and the Barclay’s picige Room here. Excellent decor, good food and a swinging show. WE GAVE the names of the Fermac Graphic officers in our recent report of the company’s prospectus, mentioning that ‘Win Barron was vice-president under its $18,000-a-year presi dent and general manager, David Feldman. Some alleged “‘good friends” of Win’s told him they saw this note as “vicious.” Get rid of them, Win, such trouble-stirrers are not your friends . . . Time gave Sam Fingold space on his Foundation Company takeover. In our Nov. 1, 1944, edition we began a front-page story on Sam: “Acquisition of Moore’s Theatre, Grimsby, Ontario, gives Sam Fingold, rising young circuit operator, his ninth house.” By 1956 his theatres numbered 40 and Rank acquired 20 of them some years ago. What I enjoyed most about Sam’s ventures was his Pronto Pup, a wiener in batter he had acquired Canadian rights for. One summer’s day at his house Tom Daley, Ralph Dale, Archie Laurie, Dick Main, the late Clare Appel and I ate our way through dozens of them. Sam Fingold is one of the nicest guys in the world and deserves everything good that comes his way—as all his friends will tell you . . . Maurice Zolotow, in the article about Cardini in his It Takes All Kinds, surprised me with this: “The best fingers for a magician are short stubby fleshy fingers.” Better for back-palming . . . IFD’s sales g.m., Jack Bernstein, gambled on Sophia Loren to win the best actress Oscar by ordering six extra prints of Two Women at a prey pony for Odeon playing. I wish he could call horses at well. OVERHEARD: “There are all kinds of analysts these days. There are economic analysts that aren’t psychos and psychoanalysts that are’ ... Ease of manner and real appeal were shown by Sammy Sales’ pretty and personable daughter, Sally, in CBC-TV’s The Most Beautiful Girl in the World, written by Bernie Slade for the hour-long Playdate series and starring Kate Reid and Neil McCallum . . . Sidney Skolsky reports that David Brando, 18-year-old nephew of Marlon and son of his sister Jocelyn, “has left Columbia. University to join a Toronto, Canada theatre group and prepare for an acting career.” Marlon and Jocelyn are working together in The Ugly American ... At the Opening ceremonies for the new Bathurst Heights branch of the North York Library Henry Marshall, head librarian, recalled the faux pas Of a toastmaster introducing Walter Pidgeon. “Mr. Privilege,” he said, “this is indeed a Pidgeon.” The North York Public Library, headed by Wm. L. Graff, who was engaged in film activities some years ago, is the third largest in Canada . Friend Al Desser sent me a scholarly work by Burgo Partridge, A History of Orgies, from Pittsburgh for my birthday. The gift wrapping and the outside wrapping had obviously been disturbed. What a time the Customs people, who are also book censors, must have had deciding whether to let the book into the country! April 18, 1962 OSCAR AWARDS (Continued from Page 1) white, was cinematographer for Taylor-Roffman’s The Bloody Brood, made at Meridian Films, Toronto, in 1961. One of the stars was Peter Falk, who was up for a best supporting actor award because of his performance in UA’s A Pocketful of Miracles. Allied Artists released The Bloody Brood. Harry Horner, now a Toronto resident, won his second Oscar for black-and-white art direction on The Hustler. He directed several of Crawley Films’ RCMP TV segments and will pilot its first feature, Barometer Rising. Very Nice, Very Nice, a sevenminute animation subject produced by Arthur Lipsett, was nominated in the documentary shorts category. Seven Arts Productions, a Toronto-based company now one of the giants of the entertainment world and headed by Louis Chesler, has a large interest in West Side Story, chosen as the best film and winner of nine other Oscars. James B. Gordon, one of those responsible for the technical effects in Taylor-Roffman’s The Mask, made at Toronto International Film Studios and released by Warner Bros. in 1961, contributed to the devising of a system of decompressing and recomposing CinemaScope pictures for conventional aspect ratios. Twentieth Century-Fox Research Dept. and DeLuxe Laboratories Inc. shared a Class II Oscar for this. Other winners included Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise, directors of UA’s West Side Story, best direction; Maxmilian Schell, best actor for his performance in UA’s Judgment at Nuremberg; Sophia Loren, best actress for her stint in IFD’s Two Women; and George Chakiris and Rita Moreno, best supporting actor and actress for their roles in West Side Story. Speed Photo Congress Sixth International Congress on High-Speed Photography will be held Sept. 17-22, 1962, at Scheveningen, Netherlands. Chairman is Dr. J. G, A. de Graaf. CENSORSHIP (Continued from Page 1) ning, who is also Alberta’s attorney-general, called on _ federal officials to withdraw it. He received no reply from the Hon. George Nowlan, Minister of National Revenue, who reports for the CBC in the House. Harry Strom, SC-Cypress, suggested an appeal board, such as that set up from time to time to consider theatre showings, be employed to rule on CBC film showings. Holowach moved that the CBC be required to comply with ‘‘the laws of the provinces regarding film showings.”